Colombia asks Israeli ambassador to leave over Gaza attack

Colombia asked the Israeli ambassador to leave the South American country on Monday due to the ongoing Israeli attack on Gaza.

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva said the ambassador, Gali Dagan, should “at a minimum, apologize and leave” for rebuking President Gustavo Petro after he compared Israel’s attacks on Gaza to the Nazi persecution of the Jews.

Leyva criticised the “rudeness” of Israel’s response to Petro on social media platforms.

Israel, said on Sunday it was “halting security exports” to Colombia due to the escalation of the diplomatic feud.

Israel is the main military provider to Colombia.

Petro, in one post on X, accused Israeli Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, of using language to describe Palestinians similar to what the “Nazis said of the Jews.”

He maintained that “democratic peoples cannot allow Nazism to reestablish itself in international politics.”